On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 16:37 -0500, O'Donnell, James wrote: > I have three available versions and all three have different problems > and none of them work. 8/07 seems to come the closest as it will load at > least. The others barf on install. I reset my BIOS to factory defaults > and put my drive back to AHCI. I am trying one more time. > > I keep feeling that it has to do with the Intel video. 2008.05 barfs at > 66% copy from the LiveCD after corrupting the screen image. I can work > on the LiveCD for hours and it doesn't have an issue, but when I go to > install, boom. The 8/07 will start to boot, and just as it is about to > load the login screen, it will reboot.I am trying an older copy (11/07) > to see what it does or to see if I can at least capture the failure. > > James
Have you tried SXCE B89? installed it from the console version (selecting 4 from the menu). Matthew > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kaiwai Gardiner [mailto:kaiwai.gardiner at gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 4:24 PM > To: O'Donnell, James > Cc: laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org > Subject: Re: [laptop-discuss] Installing Solaris 10 8/07 on Dell > Latituded830! > > On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 12:39 -0700, James O'Donnell wrote: > > It should be AHCI and not ATA? > > > > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > > _______________________________________________ > > laptop-discuss mailing list > > laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org > > It'll work on both, but I use AHCI. Have you given AHCI a try? > > Matthew >
